Paul Warren Poems

I was on night shift starting at twenty-three hundred
And I walked into the station at quarter to without dread
I put on my uniform and talked to my team mates
As we walked to the muster room so we wouldn't be late
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Seawater washes sand
What was before is gone now
Start the process again.
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I remember joy
When I was a boy
Sliding down the Red Hill
On a piece of tin without a spill
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How does the day go?
Getting up and showering in the know
Dressing and breakfasting again
Ticking off the days when it will be the end
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Do you leave when I enter the room
Or when I turn on the light - do you disappear with the gloom
Do I see you out the corner of my eye walking by
Or when it is dark do I see you in the window reflection and not the sky
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I am left handed in a right handed world
And have learnt to live with this unkind meld
A molly-dooker whose saving is that at the time
When others try to beat me up they will find
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Why is a question in your song
As the question leaves your lips
When things go wrong
And your world loses it
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Just dance on
To your favourite song
While the music is playing
And your body is swaying
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I put the blinds down
To blot out the sound
Of the noise of world
And the times that meld
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We are the ones
Who inherited their sun
To live in peace together
For we are all tethered
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